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It’s time for this week’s FP Picks update & we have a host of banging trx from Girl In The Year Above, Blossoms, Editors & lots more. If you like what you hear please follow and share this playlist, it helps us keep doing our thing by getting the algorithms on our side. Also please support the artists featured in any way you can!
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Helen (Futureproof) x
Brigitte Calls Me Baby – Geordie
Chicago-based alt-rockers Brigitte Calls Me Baby are back with their striking new single Geordie and it proves their momentum isn’t slowing down anytime soon. Fronted by Wes Leavins—whose soaring, velvet-draped vocals command every second of audio—the band has always leaned into a distinct blend of mid-century pop grandeur and sharp post-punk urgency. But with Geordie, they’re pushing that envelope even further. The track amps up the intensity, pairing sweeping, theatrical arrangements with a driving backbone that feels both grand and fiercely immediate. Fast-paced guitar riffs, intricate arrangements and Leavins’ rich, crooning vocals combine into something that feels distinctly their own.
Jamie T – Tallahassee
Jamie T has dropped the single Tallahassee which samples Canadian singer-songwriter Leif Vollebekk’s song of the same name and closes his album Ghosts (100 Days of Morning). Jamie T wrote the track in the early hours of June 30, 2023, the day of his sold-out headline show at Finsbury Park. Its lyrics name-check Lily Allen, The Streets, Tracey Emin, Paul Heaton and The Prodigy’s Liam Howlett while addressing self-doubt and validation. Jamie T said Vollebekk’s recording had been a constant during difficult periods in his life, adding: “The song is almost me trying and failing to give myself a pep talk in the mirror before the biggest show of my career.”
Good Health Good Wealth – I Can’t Tell Ya
Good Health Good Wealth are bringing their rousing energy and gritty storytelling to our lives with their latest single I Can’t Tell Ya, taken from their upcoming album The Disco Never Ends. The track finds a relationship at a standstill, centring on the experience of loving somebody while realising that love does not necessarily provide the answers. It pairs driving guitars with a euphoric chorus, with strings swelling through its closing moments. The album goes on to offer a plethora of songs which explore life in all its knotty glory, delivered in a spoken word style that in part summons the time-honoured spirit of The Streets. At others, though, it isn’t afraid to steer off into a clubbier direction which feels more clubbier and, rather appropriately, disco-primed.
Blossoms – Husband
Blossoms have shared the upbeat new single Husband, taken from their upcoming album Songs From The Wedding Cake. The band said of the song, “We have some monumental news. It’s been a long time coming. We are finally on the soundtrack of EA SPORTS FC 27, formerly known as FIFA. It’s a top five moment for the band. Yes. The song is Husband, which is also a rocking song and a new tune, and it’s got the soundtrack off FC27. A pretty mad one for us as most of us have played it most of our lives. Can’t wait to hear our music in the game when it launches worldwide September 25th, with early access from September 18th.” They added, “Big love to Jack O’Connell for making our idea for the video come to life, and making a banging cottage pie for us haha!” What an infectious banger.
Editors – Seriously
Editors have shared the single Seriously, taken from their upcoming album Surface, Echo & Sound. The track sits at the New Wave and ’80s indie rock end of the band’s sound, driven by chiming guitars and a propulsive energy. Lyrically, it deals with finding a way forward when life darkens. Frontman Tom Smith says: “So much of the stuff that has been written about us in the past focused on a darkness or a bleakness. But every time someone wants to talk to me about our band or shows me a tattoo they have of one of our lyrics or wants me to write some lyrics down for them, it’s always lyrics that have love and warmth and hope in them. If you remove them from their setting, or perhaps the way I’ve sung them, they’re not dark at all.”
Girl In The Year Above – Wet Paint
Irish-Cornish band Girl In The Year Above’s new single Wet Paint blends a Celtic sound with melodic guitar hooks, driving piano lines and frontwoman Jennifer Ball’s mellifluous vocals. The band explain: “Through writing the lyrics of Wet Paint together, Jen and Jeanie soon realised how painfully relatable this topic is, yet so rarely talked about. The song’s story starts lightly to draw the listener in until you gradually realise it is about consent. With a heavy topic, it was important to us that the track still felt bright and powerful. We hope it mimics the likeness of anyone who can relate to the track, in the sense that you are bright and powerful no matter what. We would love for this track to bring joy and defiance; feel free to shout/dance/laugh/weep, etc.” Fantastic songwriting on this rousing & poignant banger.
Dana Margolin – Big Beautiful Sound
Dana Margolin is best known for helming Porridge Radio, a project that expertly showed the capabilities of her songwriting through expertly executed emotional intensity. Not only is this intensity not lost now that things are sonically lighter, but the isolation of Big Beautiful Sound builds on it, as Margolin’s lyrics take the focus, sprawling over a gentle guitar and glockenspiel duet. Margolin says “We go all the way down together, down a spiral staircase into the centre of the earth where there is darkness and nothing can grow, and we chose to go there, and wasn’t it fun, and right there at the deepest depths of the journey is a glowing ember, something luminous, a big and beautiful sound.” Margolin will be touring this autumn, with a sold-out show in London on 7 October, followed by festival appearances and support slots with Ezra Furman.
EYRE LLEW – Everywhere
Everywhere is the new track from Nottingham post-rock outfit EYRE LLEW, taken from their upcoming album BLOOM. The track begins with a simple, cyclical riff, but soon transitions into a deeply textured, dense mesh of sound supported by the backing vocals of friends, family and fans. Its final moments are a meditative, ambient juxtaposition. The band say the new track “is a love song rooted in timing, instinct, and the feeling of being pulled towards someone before you even realise what’s happening. It traces back to a fleeting moment, a spontaneous drink before a goodbye, when my now-fiancé was heading back to Wales the day after her birthday, and everything in that moment felt like it was aligning. Two people being drawn together, glowing in the feeling of it, knowing something important was starting.”
Ex:Re – Radio Station
Elena Tonra of Daughter has announced the return of her solo moniker Ex:Re with a second album, Save As, set to follow up her 2018 debut next month. A surreal song about an endless California road trip, the single Radio Station mirrors Tonra’s restless mind, weaving together fragments of memories and slivers of overheard conversations. Rich guitars and Tonra’s hypnotic vocals create a trance-like atmosphere as she moves through stations of her mind, shifting throughout the track. Tonra shares: “The changing radio station is something I experience a lot – the push and pull of different feelings, and I end up getting stuck because I can’t make decisions.” The album is described as having no conceptual storyline. Instead, it focuses on all-consuming overthinking and the places we go to escape, with memory as its central theme.
ratbag – never put a ring on a lady
Alternative artist ratbag is back with new single never put a ring on a lady, a bruised and biting queer heartbreak anthem that ushers fans into the next chapter of her fantastical universe. Written in the throes of ratbag’s first queer situationship, the track captures the kind of heartbreak that leaves you wanting to warn everyone off love. Raw, wounded and characteristically sharp, the track sees ratbag turn romantic devastation into something both darkly funny and painfully sincere. ratbag shares: “never put a ring on a lady poured out of me in a single day during my first experience in a queer situationship. It’s about getting so badly hurt by love that you guide everyone, and yourself, far away from it… I love women but my god, they sure know how to break a heart.”
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